Quote: I made no statement, I asked a question and I don't think a genuine question can be either arrogant or ignorant ...it's a QUESTION.

Your question seemed rhetorical to me. I apologise if I misunderstood,but not for being testy;it's one of my more attractive qualities, I assure you.

PS I'm inclined to think I got it wrong due to the kudo from GC.

(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: I guess you can go ahead and burn a Bible or a Quran if you really need to release your anger that way.

Who said anything about anger?

(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: But, other than that, I don't see any positive effects that can come out of doing such a thing.

Oh I don't know...my garden is looking great!

(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: And if you do it, then you shouldn't do it in front of others because they will obviously know that you're burning them just to make them feel offended (which is going to put you in a bad light).

Only a Theist would be THAT sensitive and take the ideology that people should do as THEY say

(December 19, 2011 at 3:41 am)Rayaan Wrote: So, I think it would be much a wiser action to just tell them why you hate those books or perhaps what particular things you find to be repulsive in those books instead of burning them. This is just my opinion.

At the end of the day they are just books...out of date and out of fashion...they will be burned or composted or thrown into the great midden that is humanities rubbish heap...there is nothing sacred about them raayan...since there is nothing sacred about all those works that have been destroyed over the centuries by religious zealots in the name of their deity.

(December 19, 2011 at 4:50 am)padraic Wrote: PS I'm inclined to think I got it wrong due to the kudo from GC.

It's alright cobber, I gave you one too.

But the burning of any book, regardless of it's content is wrong.

Yes, thousands of books every year are remaindered because they haven't sold. But that's different.

Book burning is a political statement and in my mind one step removed from burning people at the stake.

So fucking what if you don't agree with it.

Just because because you don't like it does not give you the right to destroy it.

Yes, I find the bible and the quran equally repugnant and abhorrent, and I'm still astonished that anyone capable of tying their own shoelaces could ever take them seriously.

But to burn them for what they contain?

That would make us worse than the nazi's and the religious nutters that would would seek to "protect" us from knowledge that they deem dangerous.

Afterall how would you feel if a christian or a muslim called for the burning of "The origin of species"?

They are in the end only books and will be turned to dust anyway.

Burning books for a political statement?? Childishness !

(December 19, 2011 at 5:49 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: They are in the end only books and will be turned to dust anyway.

Burning books for a political statement?? Childishness !

You know how I feel about books Babe.

(December 19, 2011 at 5:53 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

(December 19, 2011 at 5:49 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: They are in the end only books and will be turned to dust anyway.

Burning books for a political statement?? Childishness !

You know how I feel about books Babe.

I totally agree!! Like I said and you know.."I am still upset over the Burning of the Library of Alexandria" but I also acknowledge the fact that paper will deteriorate and so a few books get burnt?? Big fucking deal. Books are so CHEEP in this century that they are almost worthless and they are easily replaced.

The VALUE of their (mass produced books) content is another matter entirely.

(December 19, 2011 at 5:58 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

(December 19, 2011 at 5:53 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

(December 19, 2011 at 5:49 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: They are in the end only books and will be turned to dust anyway.

Burning books for a political statement?? Childishness !

You know how I feel about books Babe.

I totally agree!! Like I said and you know.."I am still upset over the Burning of the Library of Alexandria" but I also acknowledge the fact that paper will deteriorate and so a few books get burnt?? Big fucking deal. Books are so CHEEP in this century that they are almost worthless and they are easily replaced.

The VALUE of their (mass produced books) content is another matter entirely.

As I said thousands of books get remaindered every year, but that is just economics.

The burning of books though, that is a statement, "I fear what this book contains and it should be destroyed"

And when societies start the book burnings look how it usually ends.

(December 19, 2011 at 6:03 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

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(December 19, 2011 at 5:58 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

(December 19, 2011 at 5:53 am)Zen Badger Wrote:

(December 19, 2011 at 5:49 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: They are in the end only books and will be turned to dust anyway.

Burning books for a political statement?? Childishness !

You know how I feel about books Babe.

I totally agree!! Like I said and you know.."I am still upset over the Burning of the Library of Alexandria" but I also acknowledge the fact that paper will deteriorate and so a few books get burnt?? Big fucking deal. Books are so CHEEP in this century that they are almost worthless and they are easily replaced.

The VALUE of their (mass produced books) content is another matter entirely.

As I said thousands of books get remaindered every year, but that is just economics.

The burning of books though, that is a statement, "I fear what this book contains and it should be destroyed"

And when societies start the book burnings look how it usually ends.

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